Mumbai could be the first city to get commercial 4G services, followed by Delhi and Kolkata. Besides these big metros, states like Kerala will be among the first places to see its 4G services kick off.ETTelecom | March 26, 2016, 00:14 IST

NEW DELHI: Reliance Jio is planning to launch commercial 4G services in various states over the next 10-15 days, a report in RTN Asia claimed, citing information from mid-level Jio employees.

The company may start rolling out services starting April 1, 2016. Mumbai could be the first city to get commercial 4G services, followed by Delhi and Kolkata. Besides these big metros, states like Kerala will be among the first places to see its 4G services kick off.

Jio reportedly inked an ICR agreement with BSNL a few days back. It had earlier inked spectrum sharing, and ICR agreements with RCom, which is expanding its 3G network very fast to provide a viable fallback option for Jio’s 4G network.

Interstingly, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, in its recent note, said that the Mukesh Ambani-owned telco may defer mega launch of fourth-generation or 4G services to December this year.

"Despite completing an employee soft launch in December 2015, we do not yet have visibility on the timeline on commercial launch by Jio. In our recent meetings with industry participants, we found a consistent view coming out of risks of Jio launch being pushed to December 2016," the brokerage firm had said.

At 1.2 lakh 4G cell sites, Jio already has more LTE base stations in India than all other operators put together, the report said, adding that the telco has already taken its 4G signal to over 1 lakh villages and 18,000 towns and cities.

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BSNL is yet to get the department of telecom (DoT) nod for commercially rolling out 4G services while the Narendra Modi-led government is eyeing to launch fifth-generation or 5G technology together with matured markets worldwide in 2020.